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A Leftwingnut Comment
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The subjects I have covered all attribute "tribe-like" subdivision of our political society and range from an anthropological-DNA view of our species' current behavior, to college commencement rants, thoughtful views on the origins of, and return to, cooperative survival strategies characterized by focus on each tribes dominance strategy to the detriment of competing tribes.
The sense of the collection is that our species is devolving into an earlier survival mode without regard for the welfare of individuals in and out of each tribe, but most especially the deliberate suppression of all groups and individuals not selected for inclusion in the dominant tribe.
Exaggeration, maybe, but perhaps with a frightening modicum of truth.
The election season of 2014-2016 may provide ample evidence of a real degeneration of Homo sapiens into a more primitive state. I fervently hope to be proven otherwise.
Editore: William HannaPubblicato: Apr 16, 2012ISBN: 9781476387352Formato: book
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A Leftwingnut Comment - William Hanna
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About this Book
This collection of my personal views on the current political environment, together with a sampling of publications of other interested individuals, reflects a decidedly left-wing view of the state of politics in our nation. The individual contents are attributed to the authors. The subjects range from an anthropological-DNA view of our species current behavior, to college commencement rants, to thoughtful views on the origins of, and return to, cooperative survival strategies characterized by focus on each tribe’s dominance strategy to the detriment of competing tribes.
The sense of the collection is that our species is devolving into an earlier survival mode without regard for the welfare of individuals in and out of each tribe, but most especially the deliberate suppression of all groups and individuals not selected for inclusion in the dominant tribe.
Exaggeration, maybe, but perhaps with a frightening modicum of truth.
The election season of 2014-2016 may provide ample evidence of a real degeneration of HOMO sapiens into a more primitive state.
Preamble to Political Essays & Commentaries
I was born in 1924 of a Canadian father, a US Steel executive, and an American mother. I grew up in Detroit and Chicago’s North Shore (Wilmette). Growing up in an old fashioned Republican environment, I was, nonetheless apparently a dormant Democrat from high school on as I remember arguing with my father’s management role in the Republic Steel South Chicago mills Memorial Day Massacre
in 1937 and, going back a generation I was aware that Lawyer Grandfather Clark wrote a regular Republican political polemic (or what passed for one in those days) for the Detroit News. He was politically active in other ways too, having the habit of parking out-of-work politicians in his Detroit law firm until their political fortunes reversed.
By age 19, though not yet eligible to vote, I was dependably a Democratic fellow traveler, however despite my radical
views I cast my first vote in a presidential election for Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 but soon abrogated my nominal republicanism and re-registered as an independent. After a 4-year stint in the Army Air corps and, later while an engineering student at Stanford I became both an atheist and a closet activist liberal. My postgraduate employment in the Aerospace industry lead me to a fellow activist (also an aerospace industry employee), subsequent sharing of views and living quarters and eventually marriage to Sylvia McKinney, which union has endured for some 57 years so far.
My engineering work lead to a Directorship and Vice Presidency in a Santa Barbara Corporation principally engaged in high-energy physics research under contract to DARPA. My role took the company in a new direction in applying appropriate technology to a more immediately demanding application in managing large-scale domestic emergencies (principally wildland fires) via a seven-year federally funded project. Our work has endured and now forms the foundation for related programs worldwide.
Writing many technical publications over the years and increasingly numerous letters-to-the-editors on local political matters whetted an interest in writing per se, which I have been able to indulge since retirement. I have an enovel in publication and have been accumulating this series of highly partisan political essays and an separate assortment of memory-driven short stories that I now hope to publish.
So herewith the collection of my personal essays and some pertinent commentaries by a few of my fellow travelers
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Table of Contents
An Anthropological Parable 8
On the recent evolution of our species
Attention Governor Parry 11
Dawkins on acceptance of proven theory
Republicans v. Democrats 13
Good Soldiers
vs. Free Thinkers
Social Darwinism 15
Evolutionary concepts applied to social structures from Spencer on
The Cold, Cold Wind of Reality 17
A hard right
view the future of Democracy
On Behavior of Governments 24
The significance of the hard right
view
On the Evolution of HOMO publicus 27
Greed
Whither, Withers America 29
The decline and fall of democracy
The Reptile Brain 32
Ideology vs. primitive brain function
Email to Barrack Obama 35
On self-serving behavior
State of the Nation 35
In 2010 and 2012
Why I Became an Atheist 39
A personal triumph of logical introspection
Afterword 43
On a fictional 2012 presidential election
Socialism 45
Why the US is a Socialist nation
Tribalism 47
We are still fundamentally governed by our primitive instincts
Current Thoughts (Summer 2014)……………………………………………………………..49
Our Congress is virtually useless
Foreword
Since the 2008 election of Barrack Obama it has seemed clear to me that the Republicans could not believe they had lost control of the US government. Given unexpected defeat, the seemingly irrational conservative
fringe of the population united under the Tea party
rubric with a rock-bound determination to defeat the Black Man in the White House
even if doing so could demonstrably cause a collapse of the American Democracy and the disenfranchisement of the great majority of American Citizens.
To ensure this outcome, the great international corporations and the super wealthy individuals banded together to lobby into defeat any and all efforts on the part of Democrats to unite congress in a bipartisan program to restore the nation to a government for the People
that had degenerated into a third-world entity in the apparently incompetent hands of the Nixon, Reagan and George Bush regimes.
The essays which follow comment on this behavior syndrome with some digressions into some genetic heritance issues and a rational for barring religious issues from political deliberations.
The author’s own bias is quite clear, but is, hopefully, rationally understandable even to those who hold other views except perhaps evangelical views of evolution, climate change, racial equality and the reluctant necessity to endure the female of the species.
An Anthropological Parable
November 2011
The creationists
and the intelligent designers
on the one hand and the paleoanthropologists and most of the biologists on the other have been fussing at each other for some time now about how long we modern folk have been around. Some of the biblical — interpretation: adherents date biblical mans' advent around 6000 years ago, when appropriately the world was made
. Virtually all scientists and most educated others allow for an older earth — about 4 billion years older — but still opt for us showing up much as we presently appear 5,000 to 10,000 years ago; sans clothing of course, which raiment must be a recent adaptation to compensate for certain non-African climatologically evolutionary oversights not overlooked in the progress of other hot-blooded species which wear home-grown fur coats suitable to their less tropical habitats.
The paleoanthropologists, on the other hand, think we probably evolved in leaps and lurches over a three or four million year
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